On 4/12/2012 6:24 AM, Ed Minch wrote:
> GG
>
> We were just talking about a collapsible set of sticks to check
> corners for square when this appeared in my box
>
> http://www.woodpeck.com/ottpythagoras.html?et_mid=548758&rid
lol.

I've said it before. It bears repeating.

We live like royalty in the modern age.

We eat superior quality fresh foods with a stupendous variety while our
fore fathers ate what they could grow themselves or find and were
limited to a trivial variety of things often suffering mold and
corruption as normal. We recline on stuffed sprung couches, chairs, and
beds with clean sheets while our fore bearers slept on parasite infested
straw mats and sat on splintery stump stools We live in insulated heated
and often air conditioned homes with running water and electricity to do
our bidding, to clean us regularly, and light our way to our powered
devices. We excrete in specialty made ceramic bowels that flush our
waste away to where we care not, no longer having to dig trenches and
freeze in the cold or use a bucket suffering the stench of it all
through the night. We have family and friend festivals so resplendent
they would make the hall of Odin look poverty stricken. We go on
vacations where we pay to be waited upon like potentates We have tools
made of exotic metals specialty steels forged and hardened to pursue
mere entertaining hobbies with no pressure to produce for survival. We
have medicine like the world has never seen with vaccinations against
the worst of diseases, dentistry, antibiotics and technological marvels
of astonishing complexity and cost available to us for little more than
the asking. We are often land owners. We own personal property that
would make our fore fathers wince from the excess and opulence. We don't
fear escheature to some baron. We can let land lie fallow and leave our
precious things to our loved ones. We have electronics computers
Televisions radios stereos mobile phones galore.

And for some reason that I can't fathom some of us insist that things
are not marvelous. Times have never been better.

One old tool once said: "Madam, I have given you a Republic - - if you
can keep it."

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